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May 8th 2007
by Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Hardcover, 384 pages
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0743268571
(isbn13: 9780743268578)
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Read in March, 2008
I haven't read Mary Higgins Clark in a long time. Years ago, I remember finding her books really terrifying and yet really clever. Perhaps I have become jaded or perhaps she is slipping, but this book was a bit ho-hum. The premise of a sleepwalker being charged with a crime was very interesting and the idea of the young girl marrying the older wealthy man who lives in a mansion was reminiscent of the old Gothic romance. I was hoping for a new twist on the type of book I read as a teenager. ...more
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Read in August, 2008
I have read almost every book this author has written and was excited to come across this fairly new story last week. As always it was a page turner... completely captivating and a very easy read. If you've read enough of her books you can usually pick out the murderer in the first couple of chapters... this time I narrowed it down to two and picked the wrong one (but I was close!)! Very typical MHC - fun to read, interesting plot, not a lot of character development but enough to make you want ...more
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Read in January, 2008
This book had all the right ingredients for a good thriller — love, money, murder, drugs, blackmail… Instead it was a hot mess. Very choppy, very hurried in parts, characters you can’t relate to because you don’t *know* anything about them. Kay and Peter’s entire meeting, courtship, wedding, and honeymoon is covered in 4 pages, which makes it very hard to buy their devotion to one another. I finished it to see what the ending twist would be, but it wasn’t very enjoyable.
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Read in March, 2008
Okay, first time with this author and I liked it. Picked it up in the airport because I needed more than "People" magazine. I think she had a well-woven murder mystery with an element of love. Good. Easy.
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Read in January, 2009
I picked this up for a pulpy read while traveling to Europe on business. Is it great writing? No. Is it a compelling story? Nope. Did it keep me completely riveted so that I couldn't put it down? Oh yes!
Mary Higgens Clark has this talent for writing suspense novels that are complete page turners. So, while I didn't really like her style of prose, didn't find any of the characters sympathetic or even likable, for it's purposes, the book was great.
I found the ending trit...more
Mary Higgens Clark has this talent for writing suspense novels that are complete page turners. So, while I didn't really like her style of prose, didn't find any of the characters sympathetic or even likable, for it's purposes, the book was great.
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Read in March, 2008
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Read in June, 2007
I like Clark's books; they are clean, and nothing really offensive in it, thought those kind of things don't generally bother me.
The premise of this book was the story of Kay Lansing, the daughter of a landscaper. She is a librarian (really) and talks to Peter Carrington, businessman, owner of the lavish Carrington estate, and "person of interest" in two murders. Kay and Peter fall in love. Peter is finally formally accused of murder and Kay works to clear his name. The plo...more
The premise of this book was the story of Kay Lansing, the daughter of a landscaper. She is a librarian (really) and talks to Peter Carrington, businessman, owner of the lavish Carrington estate, and "person of interest" in two murders. Kay and Peter fall in love. Peter is finally formally accused of murder and Kay works to clear his name. The plo...more
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Read in October, 2007
blech-- boring. i was relieved when it was done.
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Read in January, 2008
Long ago Kay Carrington hear a man who is hidden from view , whistle a familiar song. The same day a girl was murdered. Kay's husband is being suspected for being the killer and Kay have to revisit her distant memory of that day to prove that her husband is innocent. But uncovering the truth behind that memory might cost her her life.
The central characters of her books are mostly women with harsh life circumstances. There is women who are betrayed by shifty husbands, imprisoned, psycholog...more
The central characters of her books are mostly women with harsh life circumstances. There is women who are betrayed by shifty husbands, imprisoned, psycholog...more
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Read in June, 2007
Kay Lansing works at the local Engelwood Library. After visiting Peter Carrington to ask his permission to host a fundraiser at his home, Kay and Peter fall in love during a whirlwind romance. People are surprised by their sudden marriage especially because of the "cloud of suspicion" hanging over Peter Carrington after the disapearance of his girlfriend Susan Althrop 22 years ago and the death of his first wife, who was 7 months pregnant, 4 years ago. Not long after their marriage a c...more
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Read in January, 2009
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I picked this book up in the library. Many years ago I read a few M. Higgins Clark's books, and I thought they weren't that bad, (but didn't WOW me either...). I was not very impressed with this story though. Although it's not badly written, what I mostly couldn't relate to was - to my liking - the lack of of any real dimension to these charachters, giving me with a pretty shallow impression). I felt no connection to the story and to the characters in this book, who, in my opinion, lacked a lot ...more
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Read in September, 2008
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My motherrecommends it for: Anyone who loves solving cases
I Heard That Song Before by Marry Higgins Clark is a novel about a young girl wittnessing, what she thinks, is a major clue in the disapearance of Susan Althrop. At the time of six-year-old Kay's discovery her father was working on the garden at the mansion. Kay feels the urge to explore what is behind a hand carved door that her grandfather built for the mansion. She finds it leading to a chapel where she over hears an angry conversation between a man and a woman. She isn't sure what she hears,...more
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Read in June, 2009
My first Mary Higgins Clark novel, and I must say that the book was a page-turner (except that I listened to it on CD, so maybe the expression should be that I drove way below the speed limit so I could squeeze as much as possible into every car trip). The best part of the book is that I didn't see the ending coming. Always a good thing when I can't figure out how the story's resolved.
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Read in March, 2009
This book was a little less suspenseful than MHC's usual fare. Keeping true to her musical nod en title, the song heard before is key to the mystery of today. I wasn't wholly impressed with the murderer nor the rich political characters and remembered "I'll Be Seeing You" as a better throw-back. Oh Mary, where are you?
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Read in March, 2009
This is another page turner from Higgins Clark - I read it in two days! It reminded me of an Agatha Christie novel - many murders, many suspects, many motives.....you will be guessing who is really guilty until the final pages of the novel and will still be surprised by how is all is resolved (or is it?)!
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Read in March, 2009
Weak. Perhaps MHC's age is affecting her writing? Nothing like her earlier suspense novels (which I loved). This one attempted to be updated with current name drops of television shows and restaurants... but the writing was still outdated. I'm pretty sure there was a line like, "...now I must do to you what I have done to the others." Please.
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Read in November, 2008
Mary Higgins Clark is my guilty pleasure. I read her every so often because the books are a quick read, and they are usually engrossing. Some are better than others, and I am happy to say that this was one of the better ones.
Kay is a librarian (awesome!) who has a whirlwind romance with a multi-millionaire who owns the estate where her father was a landscaper when she was a child. Her new husband Peter has been "a person of interest" in the disappearance of Susan Althorp, a...more
Kay is a librarian (awesome!) who has a whirlwind romance with a multi-millionaire who owns the estate where her father was a landscaper when she was a child. Her new husband Peter has been "a person of interest" in the disappearance of Susan Althorp, a...more
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Read in October, 2008
Another MHC book with the same plot structure as all the other books of hers that I've read - intelligent woman caught in a murder plot that somehow she alone must solve, she is nearly killed, but somehow everything is resolved and she ends up happily ever after with the man of her dreams and a baby in her arms living somewhere in New Jersey.
But I liked the plot, it was a quick read, and I enjoy MHC's writing style. It's easy to follow, just the right amount of suspense, and clean...more
But I liked the plot, it was a quick read, and I enjoy MHC's writing style. It's easy to follow, just the right amount of suspense, and clean...more
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Read in April, 2009
Good and easy read. Somewhat predictable but it doesn't matter at all (when the book is well written - which is the case here). While I was reading this I got a feeling that this mystery might be based on Drew Peterson case...
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